Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
Platform9 Expands Managed Kubernetes Portfolio
Platform9 today announced it has extended the reach of its managed Kubernetes services to include open source Prometheus monitoring software and Grafana dashboards along with support for Calico virtual networking software. In ...
Red Hat Expands Container Cost Optimization Tool
Red Hat has extended a free software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering included with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions designed to make it easier to control cloud costs. Sergio Ocón-Cárdenas, principal product manager for ...
Thycotic Extends Secrets Management Reach to Kubernetes
Thycotic, a provider of privileged access management (PAM) platform, today announced its support for Kubernetes. The company currently provides two types of PAM platforms for application developers. The first is DevOps Secrets ...
Google Proposes Changes to Istio Steering Committee
Google is making a case for changing the rules under which the open source Istio service mesh project for Kubernetes environments is managed with a proposal to create a new Steering Committee ...
Portshift Unveils Security Framework for Kubernetes Environments
Portshift this week plans to launch a framework that promises to make it easier to identify potential security threats to Kubernetes clusters. Adapted from the ATT&CK cybersecurity framework created by MITRE, a ...
CNCF Embraces Operator Framework to Manage Kubernetes Environments
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week voted to accept the Operator Framework as an incubation level project. The Operator Framework is an open source ...
Docker Inc. Deepens Ties to AWS Cloud Services
Docker Inc. and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today at the online AWS Cloud Containers Conference announced they are working together to better integrate Docker Compose, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub with Amazon ...
SUSE Acquires Rancher Labs as Part of Consolidation Wave
SUSE today announced its intention to acquire Rancher Labs, a provider of a framework for automating the management of Kubernetes clusters. Rancher Labs CEO Sheng Liang says the combination of the two ...
CNCF Adds Contour Ingress Controller as Incubation Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week announced Contour, a high-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes clusters, has become an incubation level project. Originally developed by Heptio, which was acquired by VMware, ...
Kublr Extends Kubernetes Cluster Management Reach
Kublr is making available a technical preview of an update to its namesake Kubernetes management platform that can reach out to external clusters that have already been deployed. Previously, Kublr could only ...
